Expo 67: Avant Garde!

50 years ago this month, Montreal hosted the largest gathering of avant-garde art and design ever seen! Expo 67 was the 20th century’s most successful World’s Fair, taking place during a time of both social and artistic upheaval around the world. Visitors were treated to an incredible concentration of some of the most forward-looking, boundary-breaking art of the time, from Pop Art to Xenakiss’ and Otto Joachim’s experimental sounds to Buckminster Fuller’s utopic geodesic dome. Expo 67: Avant Garde! is an exhibit of poster art, photos and ephemera from Expo 67 and late 1960s Montreal illustrating the impact Expo had on a generation of young Quebec artists, those who went on to build the province’s own avant-garde and experimental arts milieu. Archive Montreal unearthed many rare, never-before shown works and photos, and will launch the exhibit with a vernissage featuring music from Expo 67 and its era.

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